45 years for mother who suffocated her 6-year-old son and dumped his body on a dirt road because he was an ‘inconvenience’
A mother was jailed for 45 years today for suffocating her six-year-old son in a motel room and dumping his body along a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Texas admitted killing Camden Hughes by kneeling on his back and covering his mouth with her hand. The discovery of his body last May in Maine [...]
Woman who murdered her toddler son in house of squalor and left body in cot until it ‘mummified’ is jailed for 15 years
A woman who murdered her toddler son and left his body in a cot for so long it ‘mummified’ was today jailed for a minimum of 15 years. Kimberley Hainey, 37, was found guilty by a majority verdict last month of murdering her son Declan at a flat in Paisley, Renfrewshire. His decomposing body was [...]
Father beat six-week-old baby boy until he was blind and brain damaged
A father, who was driven ‘mad’ by the crying of his baby son, beat and shook the six-week-old so viciously that he was left blind and brain damaged. Nicholas McRoberts, 27, has been jailed for eight years – the maximum permitted – after admitting the attack on tiny Devin McRoberts. After the brutal beating, McRoberts [...]
Former Marine pleads guilty to tossing son off boat ‘after he wouldn’t stop crying’
A drunken father who tossed his seven-year-old son overboard in a busy California harbour, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, has been sentenced to rehab. Thirty-five-year-old Sloan Briles, a former Marine from Irvine, avoided jail by pleading guilty on Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment. He was sentenced to three [...]
Iowa mother arrested in death of twin girls
A Huxley woman deliberately killed her two newborn girls not long after giving birth last week and left them in the trunk of her vehicle, authorities said today. ackie Burkle, 22, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, she will spend the rest of her life in prison. [...]
The Haditha killings
The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At least 19 of those killed [...]
Doctors testify in murder trial of man accused of savagely beating girlfriend’s 4-year-old son to death
The desperate battle to save a brutally beaten boy’s life was recounted in graphic testimony by doctors who tried in vain to revive him in a Michigan hospital. Brandon Hayes, 25, stands accused of mercilessly beating Dominick Calhoun over a period of four days, before leaving the 4-year-old to die on the floor of his [...]
Couple let their son, 8, die of curable cancer because they ‘couldn’t afford medical treatment’ – but did get their pet pit bull de-fleaed
A couple who failed to seek medical care for their cancer-stricken son because they said they couldn’t afford medical care have pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Willie Robinson, eight, died of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in 2008 after begging his parents to get him medical care, according to prosecutors. They say that had he received treatment, the youngster [...]
Weldon Marc Gilbert, Suspect In Child Rape Case, Allowed To Watch Child Pornography In Jail (huh?)
Weldon Marc Gilbert, a Washington man who is on trial for raping young boys and for producing child pornography, will be allowed in jail to watch as much of that child pornography as he’d like, according to a report from KOMO-TV. KOMO 4′s Keith Eldridge reports that the Washington State Supreme Court has ruled that [...]
Couple ‘suffocated three-month-old son as they slept next to him’… their SECOND child to die in their bed
couple accused of suffocating their baby as he slept in their bed – three years after another of their children died the same way – have had charges against them upheld. The Utah Court of Appeals refused to kick out the case against Trevor Merrill and Echo Nielsen, both 28, whose son Kayson Merill died [...]